﻿﻿The assertion-evidence (AE) approach is a dramatically different way to present your scientific, technical, or engineering work. This approach will help you to create better understood presentations, as evidenced bytests of audience comprehension. In addition, the approach will make your presentations more focused and help you to project more confidence.

In the assertion-evidence approach, you build your talk on messages (not topics) to tell a coherent and compelling story about your work. Those messages you then support with visual evidence (not bullet lists). In addition, you engage the audience by fashioning sentences on the spot, but after practice. The assertion-evidence approach is emerging in scientific presentations at a host of institutions: Penn State, MIT, Cornell, Rose-Hulman, Simula Research Laboratory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Texas Instruments, ​the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Engineering Ambassadors Network.